Media
This Is What Jeanine Cummings Said Wednesday About ‘American Dirt’ Controversy
“If people read it on its own merits and then decide that they hate it based on what is in the pages, that’s OK. Not everyone needs to love my book,” the author said in Baltimore.
Brazilian Prosecutors Accuse Glenn Greenwald in Hacking Case
SAO PAULO (AP) — Prosecutors accused U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday of involvement in hacking the phones of Brazilian officials involved in a corruption investigation, though Brazil’s high court had blocked investigations of the journalist or his Brazil-based news outlet in relation to the case.
The NYTimes Editorial Board Needs Diversity in More Ways Than One (OPINION)
Speaking for myself, please accept this heartfelt apology, Jeneen Interlandi.
#ICYMI, the Full Iowa 2020 Brown and Black Presidential Forum (VIDEO)
The 2020 event was held on MLK Day.
Migrant Justice Settles Discrimination Lawsuit With Vermont DMV
Federal case over immigration information-sharing ends.
Villaraigosa and Espuelas Launch New Latino SuperPAC With Hopes of Defeating Trump in 2020
The “mission and sole strategic goal” of American Latinos United (ALU) SuperPAC, the press release noted, “is to decrease President Trump’s share of the Hispanic electorate by a small percentage change that would thereby deny the President an Electoral College win and re-election to a second term. ALU seeks to drive Trump from the national 30% threshold he secured in 2016 to 25% or less in 2020.”
Brazil Documentary Gets Oscar Nomination, Exposes Division
SÃO PAULO (AP) — The Academy Award nomination for a Brazilian documentary about the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff has once again laid bare the polarization of Latin America’s largest democracy.
JLO Snubbed Because #OscarsSoWhite
*Pretends to be shocked*
Brazil Judge Orders Netflix to Remove Film With Gay Jesus
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered Netflix to stop showing a Christmas special that some called blasphemous for depicting Jesus as a gay man and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the program.
Latino Rebels Community Names #RickyRenuncia as 2019 Rebelde of the Year
It was definitely a moment.
The Internet’s ‘Speak English!’ Videos Win 2019 #NoMames Award
Sadly, we were not surprised.
The Legacy of Selena Quintanilla Is the Focus of a New College Course
Latino Rebels Radio: December 8, 2019.
Reporter Freed From Immigration Custody Settles Lawsuits
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Spanish-language reporter who spent 15 months in immigration detention following his arrest during a protest has reached a legal settlement in a lawsuit against two governments in Memphis, Tennessee.
Substitute HS Teacher in Texas Caught on Video Telling Latino Student to ‘Speak English, We’re in America’
LULAC is calling for the teacher to be permanently banned from teaching.
100 Fires: The Latino Condition (OPINION)
We face 100 fires every day, and outsiders barely see the smoke. We have to monitor all of them to make sure we are not consumed as we extinguish those whose heat is closest.
José Rivera Jr. on Ungendered Love and ‘Exploding Beautifully and Colorfully From the Inside Out’
“Ungendered love is all love. We all experience love, and have somehow been taught that love has a gender to which you must fit your puzzle piece to,” Rivera Jr. tells Latino Rebels.
How Walter Mercado Inspired a Generation of Young People to Be True to Their Beliefs and Identity
“Since I was a kid, I would just be like, ‘How do you get to be so fabulous and so queer and so strange and be on like television and be watched by my family and a lot of Latinos in the United States,” Celia Sagastume told Latino USA.
A New Poll by Multicultural Agency Says That LATINX Label Is Favored by Only 2% of US Latinos (OPINION)
The debate that should have ended years ago is suddenly back. Sigh.
25 Years After Prop 187, California’s Latino Caucus Has a Message for Pete Wilson (VIDEO)
“Thank you, Pete Wilson.”
The Cristela Alonzo Interview
Latino Rebels Radio: November 3, 2019
Julián Castro Campaign Says It Made $800K Fundraising Goal, Noting That Texas Democrat Will Stay in Presidential Race
Eleven days ago, the Julián Castro campaign said that the Texas Democrat and the only Latino in the presidential race would drop out of the campaign if he could not raise $800,000 by October 31. On Friday morning, a media release shared by the campaign noted that it had reached that goal that it hopes […]